Drapery supports



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WILLIAM PICKRIL QuMr/vo 9 5Gb ATTORNEYS United States Patent O DRAPERY SUPPORTS William Pickril, Berkley, Mich.

Application June 12, 1959, Serial No. 820,046

4 Claims. c1. 1687.6)

This application relates to improved forms of drapery supports such as are used on drapery rods for supporting draperies, particularly traverse draperies.

A principal object of the present invention is to provide a drapery support so constructed as to prevent the lower end of the drapery support and thus to prevent the lower end of the drapery heading from tilting or canting rearwardly and thus to prevent the upper edge of the drapery from canting or tilting forwardly.

A still further object is to provide an improved drapery support which can be inserted into or removed from a drapery rod freely at any point.

Still further objects will best be understood upon reference to the description which follows and to the appended drawings, which illustrate a suitable embodiment of the invention.

In these drawings:

Fig. l is a fragmentary front view of a slider part of the support per se on arrow 1 of Fig. 2 with no drapery being shown but with a portion of conventional rod or track also being shown.

Fig. 2 is a vertical section view showing the slider and track only.

Fig. 3 is a vertical section view showing the support and track and drapery.

Fig. 4 shows how a slider may be removed from a track.

Figs. 5 and 6 are elevation and side views of a heading plate forming part of the support.

Fig. 7 is a top plan view as if on line 77 of Fig. 5.

The drawings show a curtain rod 10, a drape 11, a slider 12 and a heading plate 14.

Curtain or drapery rod or track 10 is old and well known and comprises a tube slotted as shown at 25.

The drape 11 has its heading or upper edge formed with a number of pleats and for this purpose may be equipped with a transverse pleating tape 15 stitched to the drape on vertical lines between which are vertical pockets to form pleats or folds in the drape with these pockets being open at the lower ends and closed at the upper ends. The drape and its pleating tape is conventional and well known and per se forms no part of my inoention.

Slider 12 includes a vertical strap body portion having at its uppe rend a track-mount portion 21 formed to ride along the track 10 and comprising two wheels 24 spaced one above the other and mounted forward of strap body portion 20 with each wheel being of a diameter slightly less than the width of slot 25 of rod 10 to enable slider 12 to be inserted into or removed from a rod at any point freely.

Slider 12 has at the lower end of its vertical strap body portion 20 two forwardly bent vertically spaced and laterally spaced tongues 27 and has at its mid portion but below the wheels or track portion of the slider a third forwardly bent tongue 23. All three tongues have forwardly bent lateral portions and all three terminate in vertical portions. The vertical portion 29 of the uppermost tongue projects upwardly but the vertical portions 30-31 of the two lowermost tongues project downwardly and are spaced laterally to receive between them the lower end of the heading plate 14.

The latter may be a thickplastic sheet or the like and has a portion formed to be secured to a drape and such portion in the form shown comprises upstanding spaced fingers 32 formed to be received in the pleating pockets or folds of the drape. Heading plate 14 also has below fingers 32 a body portion formedwith two vertically spaced slots 33-34 receiving respectively the upper two (29-30) of the three tongues of the slider with the lowermost tongue 31 remaining behind the plate and engaging its rear surface near the lower end of the plate to prevent rearward canting of the lower end of the plate and thus to prevent forward canting of the upper edge of the plate and of the drape heading secured to and carried by the heading plate fingers.

Now having described the drapery support herein disclosed reference should be had to the claims which follow.

I claim:

1. A drapery support for drapery rods and draperies comprising in combination, a slider and a heading plate; the slider including a vertical strap body portion having at its upper end a track-mount portion formed to ride along a drapery track and having at its lower end two forwardly bent vertically spaced and laterally spaced tongues, and having at its mid portion but below the track portion, a third forwardly bent tongue; the heading plate having a portion formed to be secured to a drape and below it a body portion formed with two vertically spaced slots, receiving respectively the upper two of the three tongues of the slider with the lowermost tongue remaining behind the plate and engaging its rear surface to prevent rearward canting of the lower end of the plate.

2. A construction according to claim 1 wherein the three tongues have forwardly bent lateral portions and terminate in vertical portions; with the vertical portion of the uppermost tongue projecting upwardly and with the vertical portions of the lowermost tongues projecting downwardly and being spaced laterally to receive the lower end of the plate between them.

3. A construction according to claim 1 wherein the portion of the plate secured to the drape comprises upstanding spaced fingers formed to be received in drapery folds.

4. A construction according to claim 1 wherein the track is slotted and the track-mount portion of the slider comprises two wheels spaced one above the other and mounted forward of the strap body portion with each wheel being of a diameter slightly less than the width of the slot of the rod.

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